Clinical Nurse/Midwife (Women's Clinic Coordinator)

Your opportunity
The Clinical Nurse/Midwife provides advanced level clinical skills to ensure patient-focused evidence-based nursing/midwifery care, plans and coordinates the clinical management of patient/client care and provides leadership and support to other nursing/midwifery staff within the Women's' Health Unit.
About the Team
Mackay Base Hospital Women's Services operates within a Maternity Co-Design philosophy that involves working in partnership with maternity consumers, our community and staff from all of our facilities to develop a contemporary women centred model of maternity care.
Our Women's Services operates within a Maternity Co-Design philosophy, that involves working with the community and our staff to develop a contemporary women centred model of maternity care.

The Women's Services offers the following:

• Comprehensive antenatal, birthing and post birth care,
• Birth Centre model of care,
• Midwifery Group Practice,
• Neonatal services and
• Specialist Gynaecology services.
• The current facility has: 6 x birth suite rooms, 4 x assessment beds, 20 x ward beds and 8 x special care nursery beds. Every year we provide maternity care to more than 1500 women living in a wide area spanning St Lawrence to Sarina, Mackay, west to Moranbah, Dysart and Clermont and north to Proserpine, Bowen and Collinsville.
• The Women's Health Service is defined as a level 4 Maternity and Neonatal Service as defined in the Clinical Services Capability Framework. The unit is capable of providing maternity care for low and moderate-risk women. The service is multi-disciplinary and offers several maternity models of care, including providing or referring to midwifery community care. Antenatal care for women with moderate risk of obstetric complications may be on-site or in the community under the care of a midwife or registered medical practitioner in consultation with or under the care of an obstetrician, also known as Shared Care. Multi-disciplinary team care is provided to women with high-risk pregnancies; the Antenatal Diabetes clinic is a combined team effort which provides women access to Medical, Obstetric and Endocrinology care and a qualified Diabetes Educator.

Mackay Hospital and Health Service has six hospitals, two multi-purpose health services and four community health centres that employ more than 3,300 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.
Benefits of working for Mackay HHS

• Remuneration - Competitive packages with salary packaging options available.
• Superannuation - Up to 12.75% employer contribution.
• Annual leave loading - 17.5%.
• Employee assistance and peer support programs - Supporting our staff through difficult times.
• Wellbeing programs - Variety of initiatives available to suit all interests and lifestyles.

How to apply
For full details of this role and how to apply, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Mandatory vaccination requirements

• Vaccinated against, and remain vaccinated against, vaccine preventable diseases Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Varicella (Chicken Pox), Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Hepatitis B.
• Vaccinated against COVID-19.

For more information on your vaccination requirements should you be the successful applicant for this role, please refer to the Queensland Health employment directives.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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